Dane Hudson is a seasoned international leader who provides coaching, mentoring and advisory services to CEOs, Founders and C-level leaders through his company, Impactful Leadership. Since late 2020, he has mentored and advised over 40 Founders / CEOs leaders of start-ups and SMEs in South-East Asia, and CEOs of significant businesses with revenues between US$150m and US$3b. Over 460 C-level and high-potential leaders also trained in Impactful Leadership content.  The companies supported are in a wide range of industries such as deep technology solutions, quick service restaurants, facilities, resources, health and wellness, renewable energy, agriculture and aquaculture, fintech and mental health.

Prior to starting Impactful Leadership, he demonstrated breadth, agility and diverse skills having driven major strategic shifts, operational turnarounds, leadership team restructuring and led mergers, acquisitions and divestments.  He has also experienced and led teams through a comprehensive range of crises that occur in international businesses.

His love of learning, incessant curiosity and 6 years as a consultant, 10 years as a CFO and 22 years as a corporate CEO have culminated in the development of an exhaustive leadership framework.  Dane launched Impactful Leadership in 2020. His model centres on the three key pillars a leader must master to build and leave a lasting impact. Being disciplined, mastering how to drive change and being a hands on and practical operator.   Dane has developed this comprehensive methodology that uniquely includes frameworks, templates and systematised structure that frees the leader to concentrate on their own personal style and lead with impact.

In his career, Dane has held a range of key executive roles including Senior Vice President and Chief of Finance and Development for Yum Restaurants International (NYSE listed owners of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut), CEO of ASX listed Australian Vintage (one of Australia’s largest wine companies) and Regional CEO of ISS Asia Pacific (one of the world’s largest facility services providers) with responsibility for over 200,000 employees across Asia.

Dane has been married for more than thirty-five years and has three daughters, well progressed in building their own successful careers while achieving balanced lives. 

Dane holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Sydney University and an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York. He has completed the Executive Management Program at Stanford Business School, is a certified director from the Australian Institute of Directors (GAIDC), is a certified Management Consultant (PMC) in Singapore, is a certified Everything DiSC Facilitator, has a post-graduate diploma, is an accredited executive coach from the Hult Ashridge executive education school, UK, and in October 2022 was recognised by the global coaching organisation, EMCC, as a Senior Practitioner, one of the highest coaching levels achievable. Finally, Dane is a graduate of the Hoffman Process and a +20 year member of the global CEO organisation, YPO.